Slootjes Daniëlle, Peachin M. (eds.) Rome and the Worlds Beyond Its Frontiers

Brill, 2016. — 274 p. — (Impact of Empire 21). — ISBN 978-90-04-32561-6 ; ISBN 978-90-04-32675-0.Subjects: ancient history, classical studies, social history, archaeology, art & architecture, classical studies.
This volume offers an expansive approach to interactions between Romans and those beyond the borders of Rome. The range of papers included here is wide, both in terms of subject matter and with respect to approach. That said, a number of important themes bind the essays. Who is an insider, and who the outsider? How were these categories of person, or identity, fashioned and/or recognized in antiquity? How shall we recognize them now? What are the categories, or standards, for measuring or determining inside and outside in the Roman world? And then, of course, what are the repercussions when inside and outside come into contact? What happens when the outside is in, or the inside out?Contributors are: Isaías Arrayás-Morales, Stéphane Benoist, Wim Broekaert, Lukas de Blois, Blair Fowlkes-Childs, Gil Gambash, Daniel Hoyer, Anne Hunnell-Chen, Anne Kolb, Toni Ñaco del Hoyo, John Nicols, Günther Schörner, Michael A. Speidel, Wouter Vanacker, and Nancy L. Wicker.List of Figures.Politics & Military.
Rome, Pontus, Thrace and the Military Disintegration of the World Beyond the Hellenistic East.
Estranging the Familiar—Rome’s Ambivalent Approach to Britain.
Rome and Persia in the Middle of the Third Century AD (230–266).
The Emperor Beyond the Frontiers: A Double-Mirror as a ‘Political Discourse’.
Politics, Economics, & Society.
Turning the Inside Out: The Divergent Experiences of Gaul and Africa during the Third Century AD.
Raiders to Traders? Economics of Integration among Nomadic Communities in North Africa.
Transfer römischer Technik jenseits der Grenzen: Aneignung und Export.
Perceptions from Beyond: Some Observations on Non-Roman Assessments of the Roman Empire from the Great Eastern Trade Routes.
Hospitium: Understanding ‘Ours’ and ‘Theirs’ on the Roman Frontier.
Material Culture and Culture.
Palmyrenes in Transtiberim: Integration in Rome and Links to the Eastern Frontier.
Rival Powers, Rival Images: Diocletian’s Palace at Split in Light of Sasanian Palace Design.
The Reception of Figurative Art Beyond the Frontier: Scandinavian Encounters with Roman Numismatics.
Index of Places.
Index of Names.
General Index.